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Show TO INSTALL SpNAL SYSTEM ,0N LAKE Railroad Will Install Expensive Signal System Aero? Lake to Avoid Danger from Salt. San Francisco, June 11, Announcement An-nouncement was made here today to-day of an appropriation of $125,-000 $125,-000 to cover the cost of installing an alternating current automatic block signal system across the famous Southern Pacific Lucin cut-off, in Utah. The installation installa-tion of his alternating current will be necessary, it-is thorht by the railroad officials, shou.u any part of the present block system sys-tem become usless because of the short circuiting, which is a possibility pos-sibility on account of the heavy deposits of salt in the vicinity of the Great Salt Lake. The proposed work calls for the installation of the alternating current system for a distance of twenty miles across the fills in the lake on the east side of the long trestle, and for approx- ; imately twenty-four miles on the : west side of the trestle. All of the land on the west side of the trestle contains a large percentage percent-age of salt which acts as a conductor con-ductor of electricity and is a probable cause of short circuiting, circuit-ing, which would affect the block system. The power for operating the east end of this new alternating current system will be supplied from the Southern Pacific shops at Ogden. A special power plant at Lemay, Utah, will be built to take care of the west end of the alternating system. At times, during storms on Cfreat Salt ' Lake;1 HiFv1ft"eTTlaCir6ve-rt1Te fills and in some places the pure salt forms upon the road bed as much as half an inch in thickness. thick-ness. Work on this new system will begin shortly and it is expected ex-pected to have it in operation within about oight months. |